Culture .

Navajo is related to the Apaches . The Navajo language is one of life , culture and people . Their art is woven blankets , silver and turquoise jewelry , and a certain style of paintings based on "sandpaintings" . Those paintings were used in ceremonies . The silversmithing , basket-weaving , and rug- weaving is known throughout the world .

The Navajos tell the story of Emergence , First Man , First Woman , and the peopled moved from the First World to the Fourth World .

The new goods and technologies, are flint points and moccasins .

When there is an illness medicinemen use herbs , prayers , songs , and ceremonies to help cure patients . There are over fifty kinds of ceremonies that are used in the Navajo culture .

In the Navajo culture there are four directions , four seasons , the first four clans , and four colors that are related with the four sacred mountains . The four directions also mean four colors: White Shell means the East , Turquoise is the South , Yellow is the West , and Jet Black is the North .

Navajo indian costume .

The Navajo raised goats and sheep and eventually developed a economy , exchanging rugs and silverwork with white traders .